Environments:
An office briefly, lunch with a friend, visiting a museum house, at yoga class
Effects on others, etc:
Initial application time: approx 9am
9:30 am - I spent about an hour and a half at this office where I am hoping to learn some new marketable skills. No noticeable difference in behavior from the Caucasian female director (late 30’s) and older Japanese man (late 60’s).
Personally, I felt an increase in confidence, notable because the female director can be an overbearing bitch (though she’s super smart and there’s a lot I can learn from her) and more often than not, I err on the side of silence if I am considering something to say. Today that didn’t occur to me at all.
11:30 am - went to pick up a female friend (early 50’s, Caucasian) for lunch, to discuss a business idea I have and also some ideas she had for me for networking.
Again, I felt more confident and comfortable than usual - this is a new friend who I had only been around twice before. She is smart, classy and confident, and, though I never showed it, on previous meetings I felt that she was somewhat more of these things than I was, and I didn’t feel that I was quite at her level. Today however, I felt totally equal to her, and felt much more relaxed around her than I had previously.
She loved my business idea, and as she was very experienced in this, generously offered her help in whatever way she could.
She had been asked to volunteer for some special fund-raising events at a local historic house/museum (you know, the kind of volunteer work that wealthy housewives and such like to do), but was unavailable, and wanted to share the opportunity with me, for networking purposes. So, she had me call the lady in charge who was a good friend of hers, and off we went to the house/museum.
1:30 pm - The house/museum was beautiful and well-kept, I exclaimed and admired as she showed us around. The museum lady really liked me, said I would be perfect to guide tours of the house and such (who, me? lol). The three of us sat down and talked a bit about me and my goals, etc. One of the skills I am learning at the other office is grant writing. I shared that with the museum lady, who said they would be having a grant writing job (money!) in maybe a month or so and that she would certainly offer it to me. (I had better hurry up and learn that, lol!).
2:30 pm - I dropped off my friend and went home to change for my yoga class, and also applied about 40 mcg of P91 (unscented, more appropriate for yoga environment) as it had been 5.5 hours since my previous application.
I was the last to arrive, there were two middle-to-older aged males and one older lady, besides the instructor, who is maybe in her late 40’s/early 50’s (all Caucasian). I had never met any of them before, except for the instructor. They greeted me cheerfully, and all introduced themselves. I wasn’t that into it today, because I had gone to bed way too late the night before, and was barely thriving on a few hours of sleep.
After the class, the instructor generously offered to hold a separate class for me if I wanted, due to possible timing inconvenience and also because I had recently strained my back. The two males, separately, made special efforts to make conversation with me as I was leaving. Neither of these things had ever happened to me at yoga lass before, I will have to repeat the P91 test to see if these effects are consistent.
Summary:
I had a great day, felt confident, classy, smart and special, and was treated as such.